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Jacki Lyden speaks with Los Angeles Times reporter Davan Maharaj about the recent deaths attributed toover-stocked super stores like the Home Depot and Sam's Club. Merchandise piled high has fallen off shelves onto shoppers.

In 1971, a man going by the name of D.B. Cooper jumped from a Northwest Airlines 747 over Washington state, carrying $200,000 in ransom money from the airlines, and two parachutes. Jo Weber tells Melinda Penkava that her late husband, Duane, confessed on his deathbed five years ago that he was Cooper.

Liane talks with Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater, who has summoned the heads of the major airlines to Washington for a meeting tomorrow to discuss the delays and cancellations that have plagued air travelers for the last several months.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes how the naming of Senator Joseph Lieberman as Vice President Al Gore's running mate has sparked a rash of Yiddish words and phrases in the language of American politics.

Gov. Kevin Stitt is calling on the State Auditor to investigate Oklahoma’s State Department of Education.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow on the desperate situation involving the 118 sailors trapped on a Russian submarine. As the Russian navy announced that it had little hope of finding any survivors, a British rescue team arrived on the scene.

NPR's Jackie Northam checks in with Illinois' 10th congressional district, a key district in the presidential race, to see how the conventions played with swing voters.

Writer Mary Saner returned in mid-life to an old hobby: riding motorcycles. She had to learn it all over again.

Midwestern singer-songwriter Greg Brown is both a road poet and a keen observer of the natural world. He says that he likes to think about his work as stories sanded down into songs. His new CD is called Covenant; it's his 17th album. He talks to Jacki from his home in Iowa City. (Red House Records 2000)

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the annual Back to School report issued by the U.S. Department of Education. This year's study examines such topics as student enrollment, class size and teacher pay. The report shows a record number of students attending public schools this fall.

Liane talks with NPR's Michele Kelemen from Moscow about the status of the Russian sub Kursk, which sank after a massive explosion August 12th. A British rescue sub was hoping to dock with the crippled ship, but a robot camera is showing a serious crack on the escape hatch of the Kursk.

The people of the Mexican state of Chiapas will vote for their new governor today. The election is a closely-watched affair in Mexico, especially for members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, also known as the PRI. After holding the office of the President for 71 years, the PRI lost that seat last month, and now they find themselves desperately in need of a win in Chiapas. N-P-R's Gerry Hadden reports.